CRIMINAL JUSTICECruel & Unusual PunishmentFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingPrisons, Jails & Community Supervision Supreme Court Maintains Importance of Proportionality in Criminal Sentencing The CCLA welcomes the Supreme Court of Canada’s decisions in R v. Hills and R.…Cara ZwibelJanuary 27, 2023
CRIMINAL JUSTICECruel & Unusual PunishmentFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingPrisons, Jails & Community SupervisionSentencing CCLA Argues for Basic Human Dignity as Fundamental Value in Criminal-Penal System Before the Supreme Court Eliminating all hope of release by revisiting a person's incarceration in light of personal change…Abby DeshmanMarch 29, 2022
CRIMINAL JUSTICECruel & Unusual PunishmentFair Trial, Due Process & SentencingSentencing Upholding the Right to be Free From Cruel and Unusual Punishment at the Supreme Court CCLA appears before the Supreme Court of Canada in two cases, R v Hills and…Abby DeshmanMarch 22, 2022
Conditions of ConfinementCruel & Unusual PunishmentPRESS RELEASESStrip Searches Class Action Launched re Illegal Strip Searches A major class action is being launched today on behalf of Canadians illegally strip searched…Abby DeshmanJuly 7, 2020
CRIMINAL JUSTICECruel & Unusual PunishmentFair Trial, Due Process & Sentencing Toronto Star Op-Ed Omar Khadr The following is a re-print of an op-ed from the Toronto Star by Adriel Weaver…CCLAJuly 6, 2017